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The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters

By Stephen Addiss

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9781590308868 | Shambhala Pubns, August 28, 2012, cover price $24.95

Tao Te Ching

This is a beautiful version of the Tao Te Ching, most well understood when read alongside a more literal translation. This one is a bit more modern & poetic than a starker literal translation, but when read together the deeper meanings come through.

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9780785825166 | Collectors edition (Chartwell Books, August 30, 2009), cover price $7.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching | About this edition: This is a beautiful version of the Tao Te Ching, most well understood when read alongside a more literal translation.

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9781448018659 | Textstream, August 1, 2011, cover price $5.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching

9781848372443 | Gardners Books, July 1, 2009, cover price $12.05 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching

9780559118937 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $18.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching | About this edition: The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago at about the same time when Buddha expounded the Dharma in India and Pythagoras taught in Greece.

9780559118982 | Lightning Source Inc, April 30, 2009, cover price $13.99 | also contains Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, Tao Te Ching, The Tao Te Ching

9780872202320 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Deftly introduced and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions.

Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks 1680 - 1900

By Stephen Addiss (foreword by) and Andreas Marks

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9784805310557, titled "Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks 1680-1900" | Tuttle Pub, May 20, 2010, cover price $49.95

The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment

Product Description: When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth...read more

By Stephen Addiss and John Daido Loori

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9781590307472 | 1 original edition (Shambhala Pubns, November 3, 2009), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind.

The Zen Art Box

Product Description: A work of Zen art is a teaching in visual form, intended to be contemplated not only for its beauty, but for the secrets it contains about being fully human, fully alive. As teaching, Zen art can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous—sometimes all within the same piece; as art, it stands somewhere outside standard aesthetic conventions, even those of other schools of Buddhist art...read more

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9781590305010 | Shambhala Pubns, October 9, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A work of Zen art is a teaching in visual form, intended to be contemplated not only for its beauty, but for the secrets it contains about being fully human, fully alive.

Haiku Humor: Wit and Folly in Japanese Poems and Prints

Product Description: Humor has long been a lively element in traditional Japanese culture. Through parody, satire, personification, and wit, Japanese humor has a playful, subtle, and incongruous nature. Here, the benign and gentle quality of Japanese humor is presented through 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson, among others...read more

By Stephen Addiss, Akira Y. Yamamoto and Fumiko Y. Yamamoto

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9781590304723 | Shambhala Pubns, October 9, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Humor has long been a lively element in traditional Japanese culture.

Haiku Garden Note Cards

Product Description: Elegantly designed and embellished with lovely details, these note cards feature inspired combinations of classic haiku poems and antique Japanese prints. When paired with a decorative envelope, each card is perfect for sending just a few thoughtful lines.

By Stephen Addiss

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9780307381873 | Crds edition (Clarkson Potter, September 4, 2007), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Elegantly designed and embellished with lovely details, these note cards feature inspired combinations of classic haiku poems and antique Japanese prints.

Haiku Garden Pocket Pads

Product Description: Elegantly designed and embellished with lovely details, these portable pads feature inspired combinations of classic haiku poems and antique prints.

By Stephen Addiss

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9780307382245 | Clarkson Potter, September 4, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Elegantly designed and embellished with lovely details, these portable pads feature inspired combinations of classic haiku poems and antique prints.

Haiku Garden Journal

Product Description: The art of the haiku is that it captures the essence of a scene, an observation, or a momentary insight in the most succinct terms possible. Paired with elegant Japanese woodblock designs, the haiku scattered throughout this journal will inspire your own self-expression, whether you're filling up pages or just writing a few thoughtful lines...read more

By Stephen Addiss

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9780307381866 | Clarkson Potter, September 4, 2007, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The art of the haiku is that it captures the essence of a scene, an observation, or a momentary insight in the most succinct terms possible.

77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars, 1568-1868

Product Description: The first book on Japanese calligraphy from the significant Momoyama and Edo periods (1568–1868), 77 Dances examines the art of writing at a time when it was undergoing a remarkable flowering, as illustrated by over one hundred sumptuous illustrations...read more

By Stephen Addiss and Richard Waller (foreword by)

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9780834805712 | Weatherhill, October 10, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The first book on Japanese calligraphy from the significant Momoyama and Edo periods (1568–1868), 77 Dances examines the art of writing at a time when it was undergoing a remarkable flowering, as illustrated by over one hundred sumptuous illustrations.

Traditional Japanese Arts And Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook

Product Description: Music, poetry, the visual arts, literature, and theater have played a vital part in Japanese society. But, although Japanese artists, musicians, actors, and authors have written much over the centuries about the creation, meaning, and appreciation of these various arts, most of these works are scattered among countless hard-to-find sources or make only a fleeting appearance in books devoted to other subjects...read more

By Stephen Addiss (editor), Gerald Groemer (editor) and J. Thomas Rimer (editor)

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9780824828783 | Ill edition (Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 1, 2006), cover price $62.00 | About this edition: Music, poetry, the visual arts, literature, and theater have played a vital part in Japanese society.

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9780824820183 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 1, 2006, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Music, poetry, the visual arts, literature, and theater have played a vital part in Japanese society.

The Art Of Chinese Calligraphy

Product Description: One of the classic Zen arts, Chinese calligraphy is an increasingly popular form of self-expression. Enthusiasts say it brings physical and spiritual benefits, as well as increased discipline, patience, and persistence. Based on the success of our Art of Chinese Calligraphy Mega Mini Kit™ (nearly 100,000 sold), we’re introducing a deluxe kit devoted to this soothing, satisfying hobby...read more

By Stephen Addiss

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9780762423989 | Running Pr Book Pub, November 7, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: One of the classic Zen arts, Chinese calligraphy is an increasingly popular form of self-expression.

Art History

By Stephen Addiss

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9789990053531 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 2005), cover price $0.02

Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings

Musashi, best known for The Book of Five Rings, is the most famous samurai of all time, and this biography critically examines his life and writings, separates fact and fiction, and gives a clear picture of the man behind the myth, as well as puts the historical and philosophical aspects of the text into context and illuminates the etymological nuances of particular Japanese words and phrases.

By Stephen Addiss (illustrator), Sherab Chodzin Kohn (trans) and Kenji Tokitsu

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9781590300459 | Shambhala Pubns, August 10, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Musashi, best known for The Book of Five Rings, is the most famous samurai of all time, and this biography critically examines his life and writings, separates fact and fiction, and gives a clear picture of the man behind the myth, as well as puts the historical and philosophical aspects of the text into context and illuminates the etymological nuances of particular Japanese words and phrases.

Haiku Landscapes: In Sun, Wind, Rain, and Snow

Product Description: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of the mountains, forests, rivers, and rugged seascapes of Japan—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Addiss

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9780834805194 | Shambhala Pubns, December 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of the mountains, forests, rivers, and rugged seascapes of Japan—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan.

Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodojin (1865-1944)

Amazon.com Review: Rooting around in a Kyoto antique shop, Stephen Addiss came across a fine example of literati painting by a hand he didn't recognize. Little did he know then that he had discovered an artist he now calls the last of Japan's great literati, Fukuda Kodojin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Addiss, Jonathan Chaves (trans) and J. Thomas Rimer

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9780231116565 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: Amazon.

The Resonance of the Qin in East Asian Art

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By Stephen Addiss, China Institute Gallery (corporate author), Mitchell Clark and Kenneth J. Dewoskin

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9780965427029 | Art Media Resources Ltd, July 1, 1999, cover price $50.00

The Art of Twentieth-Century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese

Published in conjunction with a touring exhibit of twentieth-century Zen art, an album of eighty color and thirty-five black-and-white reproductions demonstrates the current vitality of Zen spirituality and its expression in paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics. (view table of contents)

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9781570623585 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, December 1, 1998), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Celebrates the unique brushwork of Zen monks and nuns

The Art of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks 1600-1925

Brings together the artistic achievements of Japanese monks, from calligraphic poems to abstract paintings to often humorous portraits of the Zen patriarch, many published for the first time, and explains their foundation in Zen philosophy. Reprint. NYT.

By Stephen Addiss

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9780810918863 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1989, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Examines the paintings and calligraphy created by Japanese monks as an aid to meditation, a tool for teaching Zen principles, and an expression of enlightenment.

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9780810927742 | Harry N Abrams Inc, July 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Brings together the artistic achievements of Japanese monks, from calligraphic poems to abstract paintings to humorous portraits of the Zen patriarch

Haiku People: Big and Small in Poems and Prints

Product Description: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of people of various shapes and sizes, young and old—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation, as well as in the original Japanese...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Addiss, Akira Y. Yamamoto and Fumiko Y. Yamamoto

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9780834804173 | Shambhala Pubns, May 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of people of various shapes and sizes, young and old—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan.

Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: The Wakan Roei Shu

Product Description: This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays.

By Stephen Addiss (editor), Jonathan Chaves (editor), Jinichi Konishi (editor), J. Thomas Rimer (editor) and Ann Yonemura (editor)

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9780231107037 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays.

River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko

Product Description: Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of more than seventy-five books, including twenty volumes of original poetry and the definitive translation into modern Japanese of the Tale of the Genji...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Addiss (illustrator), Keiko Matsui Gibson (trans), Sam Hamill (trans) and Akiko Yosano

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9781570621468 | Shambhala Pubns, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Yosano Akiko (1878-942) is one of the most famous Japanese writers of the twentieth century.

Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages

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By Stephen Addiss, Mary Ann Caws, Arthur C. Danto, Robert Motherwell and David Rosand (editor)

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9780810942943 | Harry N Abrams Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $60.00

A Haiku Garden: The Four Seasons in Poems and Prints

Product Description: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of the beauty of nature—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan. The poems appear both in skillful English translation, as well as in the original Japanese...read more

By Stephen Addiss (editor), Akira Yamamoto (editor) and Fumiko Yamamoto (editor)

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9780834803572 | Shambhala Pubns, July 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Some 120 haiku by such masters as Basho, Issa, and Buson—all written on themes of the beauty of nature—are combined with the woodblock prints and paintings of the great artists of classical Japan.

How to Look at Japanese Art

Product Description: An introduction to Japanese art which emphasizes various distinctive attributes as well as the cultural context. It discusses six major art forms: painting, sculpture, prints, ceramics, calligraphy and garden design. The latter has a role in the practice of Zen Buddhism.

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9780810926400 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 30, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An introduction to Japanese art which emphasizes various distinctive attributes as well as the cultural context.

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